The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-04
Miscellaneous Notes.

The Grant locomotive works, of Paterson, N.
j.. have order for twenty engines for the
Union Pacific.
Contracts have been signed for 5000, 900
mammoth summer hotel Mackipaw island,
and this will be another boom for the Northern
tourist business via the Grand Rapids road.
The sale of the Denver Circle railroad to T. E.
Condite for $3.50 900 is confirmed. It is believed
that the property was bought to give terminal
facilities at Denver to the Rock Island company.
The St. Louis & San Francisco has been
granted right OF way through Springfield City,
Mo. The company expects to have a line COM
pleted from Kansas City to Little Rock in about
a year.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Pc is sending
rails. at the rate of twenty carloads day, into
southern California for its branch lines in
the vicinity of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego.
The Gulf and Colorado division Of the A., T.
q S. f. is now in running condition to Thacker
vile. in the Indian Territory. Tracklaylng is
going on rapidly, over mile of track being laid
every day
The inside history of the Hooking Valley
property, with its mysterious management. will
not be written until it becomes a matter of
court record. Litigation. is already pending,
and it promises to be sensational, if anything
A report is current that the Baltimore &
Ohio Express Company has scooped the
press franchise of the East Tennessee Virginia
& Georgia system, which. if true, will give
them an entree to the South that will prove
dangerous to the Southern Express Company
President Gowen was the first to undertake to
have the railroad do its own express business,
aud in his annual reports Always maintained
that the result was satisfactory Nevertheless,
the fact remains that the surplus he showed
always nominal and the war rates undertaken
a few months ago made the company source of
serious loss.
The bill granting a franchise to the Oregon
| Railway and Navigation Company TO construct a
| bridge the Willamette river at Portland
| Ore, has passed the lower house Of the Legisa-
| ture of that State-57 to 2 1t went through the
| Senate-29 to land it is reasonably certain to
| pass over the Governors veto, which action he
| has foreshadowed
| A bill has been introduced in the New York
Legislature raising the limit of the money pen
| atty imposed upon railroads for death by acct
dent through their negligence from So, 900 to
| $4,000 The Albany Journal thinks that the
| bill will probably become Law, and that it will
! have tendency to make railroad managers
more careful
| Pittsburg papers report that steel rails are
quiet at $3S bottom figure, to $40 as an ex-
| treme figure at mill. Negotiations are hanging
| fire with foreign makers. 1t is predicted that
! some large purchases will be arranged for at an
| early day. Old rails are very scarce, and sales
| were made in some cases at $26. A 400 lot of
fsh-plates sold for $40, and $50 at tidewater
Selected and number runs from $24 to $50.
The gulf division of the A., T. & S. F. will be
| extended at early date from Balinger, Tex
| to Las Vegas, N NJ. an estimated distance of
about five hundred miles, This will give the
| shortest route between the gulf and Denver
Salt Lake and Points beyond, and about as near
route to San Francisco and other points on the
slope as the Southern + .,cifc gives 1t is said
that the engineers will make a preliminary sur
vey of this route, beginning March l.
| 1t seems likely that the American overland
| lines are soon to lose the passenger traffic from
Australia TO Europe, four-iiths of which now
takes the Central Pacific route The Canadian
| Pacific has been taking steps to gain the friend
| ly feelings of the Australian coonists in regard
| to the new line of travel to Europe which Cana
| da now affords, large amount of printed infor.
nation respecting the new route having been
| scattered through Australia and New Zealand